-Finish yourChase Freedom card spending for Q4. Earn 5+ points per dollar on airlines, hotels, Best Buy and Kohl’s on up to $1,500 of spending. You can even buy gift cards online for Best Buy and go into a store to use them to buy gift cards to other places like Amazon. Or buy airline or hotel gift cards online as well. And don’t forget to register for Q1 as well…hello 5+ points on Vanilla Reloads and Debit cards!!!

-Are you short of 110K for a Southwest companion pass for 2012? Consider transferring Ultimate Rewards points to Hyatt and then to Southwest.

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hi, im flying from ny to tlv on klm, and i was wondering if i were to get a american express platinum card, would i get any benefits like free club access in amsterdam or to take a second piece of luggage for free?
also whats the annual fee? if i sign up for it today, can i pull out the 200 today, and then also tomorow, and then after one year just cancel the card

@Israel calling cards:
OneSim is a good generic sim card with free incoming most places in the world.
For one specific country, especially Israel you can do better.
There are far cheaper options than Take N Save. Go to DDF for lots of discussion.

@dan
is there any other way to get the ams lounge access for free? i have delta miles, do they accept that for access or is there anyway to transfer them to klm miles so i could use those for the club? also anyway to get around the second piece of luggage for free?
thanks

Dan, I signed up with Spirit months ago for the $200 airline credit on my Platinum but I can’t find a way to purchase gift cards on the Spirit website but did find a third party site (GiftRocket.com) that sells it. Would I be able to get AMEX to honor those gift cards even though they’re from a third party?

i have 2 southwest cards and started spending on each of them
i am waiting to finish spending the $2000 on each until Jan
do i need to transfer the ultimate rewards points today or can that wait until Jan as well.

I just ordered a platinum card shabbos – I have not received it I was able to register for the promo but I can’t charge anything without the card – #, expiration date, security. Anyway to make that happen.

k thanx for chizuk in opening 2 primary amex, now that i met those spending thresh holds and have about 70k/85k i would like to open some chase card/s (visa/ mastercard) with flying and hotel perks… ideas?? Also when u speak about 3 bm does that mean 2 seconds later in a different tab or firefox/safari?

If you live in Jersey do not choose AA as your airline when enrolling. They will not sell GC’s to New Jersey residents. Once you enroll you can not change your airline selection. I lost out! Don’t make the same mistake.

I did use $110 dollars of my annual $200 airline credit on board flights for misc food / bev and headphones. A recent call to customer svc leads me to believe that Today I get an additional $200 annual “in flight” credit. Sound right to you ?

Lastly, do you think I can use the credit for airline gift cards too ?

I upgraded a AMEX gold after 9 months to Platinum through an offer that came to my email a few months back for 25,000 points & they charged me 3 months until my annual fee came due for the full 12 months.

When the fee came due I downgraded to Green.

Now an offer again showed up in my email for 25,000 points to upgrade to Platinum & I have alot of Delta flights coming up so I want to do it for the $200 airline credit.

The T&C;s say ‘1) 25,000 Membership Rewards points applies to your first purchase on the Business Platinum Card by 07/31/13 and is available for first-time upgrades to Business Platinum Card only. You are eligible to earn points for only one Card account. Additional Card members are not eligible. Points will be credited to your Membership Rewards® account 6 to 8 weeks after your first purchase.

Do you think I will get the points going through the link which was in fact sent to me?

hi dan- it should be noted that Gift Card purchases are NOT eligible for this credit. I found out the hard way.
here is a quote from the benefits policy of platinum- “Airline tickets, upgrades, mileage points purchases, mileage points transfer fees, gift cards, duty free purchases, and award tickets are not deemed to be incidental fees.”

dan- i called amex yesterday to ask why i have not gotten the credit for the gift card purchase. i was quoted that exact information and also emailed a link which has the membership benefits. That is a direct quote from the benefit summary. So if has been working for you- wonderful. But the rules are actually quite clear in regards to this.

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